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  • Collection: Christmas in the Works of Stanley Weintraub

Dear Young Friend:
The Letters of American Presidents to Children
Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2000

p. 115

Theodore Roosevelt to James A. Garfield

Jimmy Garfield, named for his assassinated grandfather, was the son of lawyer…

Albert: Uncrowned King
London: John Murray, 1997
p. 396

....Christmas 1860 was celebrated at Windsor. With both the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert at home. George Byng, seventh Viscount Torrington...sent J. T. Delane of THE TIMES and…

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Victoria: An Intimate Biography
New York: Truman Talley Books / E.P.Dutton, 1992

p. 150

…The Court returned to Windsor for Christmas, which was celebrated in the German fashion. Gifts were placed on tables under small Christmas Trees with…

Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996

p. 19

...December 1899....the war (South African War) was going badly....For Christmas 1899 the Queen had sought a symbolic present to send to her…

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Disraeli:A Biography
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993

p. 386

...on December 14, the Prince´s [Prince Albert] life ebbed away....In weeds and widow´s cap....Queen [Victoria] had been hurried off to Osborne, the funeral...at Windsor held without…

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Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume I
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

1887

p. 326

[Dec] 24....Go for a walk with Sidney Web.

Brought Mrs. Besant´s letters down to Fleet St., but she had gone. Called…

Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885 - 1897. Volume II
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986

p. 882

[Dec] 21 Go down to Kelmscott by the 13.25 train from Paddington.

....got to Paddington in good time. Miss Allen saw us off.…

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Shaw:An Autobiography 1856 - 1898
New York: Weybright and Talley Books, 1969

p. 225

....In my boyhood in the 1860s there were two theatres in Dublin. The Royal, in Hawkins-street, was nobly spacious, lofty, beautifully proportioned, and in…

The Playwright and the Pirate:
Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris:
A Correspondence

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982

p. 62


3 Washington Square, New York

Dec.23, 1916

My Dear Shaw:

I just want to send a…
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